If gold is worthless and pointless....

[DaveB]

Blackadder: "Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?"

Baldrick: "Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron."

[mudskipper]

You could always invest in Bitcoin instead...

[doodab]

Gold is about $1600 an ounce, a metric ton is 35274 ounces, which makes a ton of gold worth about $56 million, and all of Portugal's gold about $22 billion. It's about 1/10th of their debt.

The snotgoblin cost about £9 billion by selling our gold at the wrong time. It's a lot of money yes, but in the grand scheme of things it's a drop in the ocean.